Re: French r

En réponse à Mark J. Reed :


>You sound awfully sure of that. :)
I've heard many French accents, nearly all actually, including from other 
countries than France).

>   I can't imagine saying anything
>so absolute about English with any confidence, and I know French
>has a wide variety of dialects.
That's where you're wrong. French has a wide variety of *accents*, but very 
few dialects. The linguistic centralism (and terrorism, we can use that 
word here) that France has been suffering for centuries has been quite 
successful in wiping out most dialectal variations. Those that subsist are 
very much standardised phonetically speaking, and involve mostly slight 
differences in lexicon and grammar. The only place I think where we can 
still find true French dialects (not only French accents) is Quebec. Maybe 
there the uvular trill is still in use. I'm positive it's the only possible 
place left. Don't underestimate the monolithic state of the French language 
(for as desperating as it is :(((( ).

Christophe Grandsire.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

You need a straight mind to invent a twisted conlang.